Sophia Malamud's homepage: http://people.brandeis.edu/~smalamudSophia Malamud is a theoretical linguist, specialising in the study of language meaning.

This includes research in formal semantics, formal pragmatics, discourse functions of syntax, and semantics-pragmatics interface.

In her publications, Sophia has explored a wide variety of topics in semantics and pragmatics, such as the relationship between discourse coherence and word order in Russian, relationship between indexicality, context-dependence and reference de se, indexical-like readings of impersonal pronouns, influence of passives and impersonals on subsequent discourse, semantics of plurals, and pragmatics and semantics of speech acts in English, Russian, Mandarin, and Heritage Russian.

In her current research, Sophia is expanding into the area of language acquisition and attrition, in particular, the study of heritage language knowledge. (Heritage speakers are those who start learning their first language, before becoming dominant in another language before they finished acquiring the first - a frequent situation in immigrant communities). Current projects include a study of counterfactual marking in Ancient Greek, of rising-intonation declaratives and tag questions in American English, of requests and other pragmatic phenomena in Heritage Russian, and several studies of meaning and use of Standard Russian.

Before coming to Brandeis, she has also taught mathematics (elementary-school level through Calculus III) at various venues.
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Malamud, Sophia Alexandra, in collaboration with James Pustejovsky, Irina Dubinina, and Anna Rumshisky. "Towards an Annotated Corpus of Heritage Russian: Meaning and Grammar.." Panel discussion on Corpus Research at the annual meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages, Los Angeles, CA. January 2011.